Lisa Moses Leff
Autor de The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish history in the Wake of the Holocaust
Sobre El Autor
Lisa Moses Leff is Professor of History at American University in Washington, DC. She is the author of Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century France.
Créditos de la imagen: Uncredited image from American University website
Series
Obras de Lisa Moses Leff
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Miembros
- 60
- Popularidad
- #277,520
- Valoración
- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 7
During WWII he served in the French Foreign Legion, and later, rescued from the occupation, in the US military. He helped to rescue thousands of books and documents that the Nazis had looted and later collected more in small villages where they were lying dormant. Then he started stealing them from the libraries and archives where he went to do his research.
His original aim was to save these books and documents that represented the history of the Jews -- the soul of the Jewish community and take them to American or Israel where the future of the Jews lay. But after the war his motives eventually began to change.
This book is a biography, a social history, an intellectual history, and could be a crime novel except that it is true. As for Szajkowski in spite of it all, I didn't find that I could condemn him.… (más)